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Last week, for the 95th anniversary of the Old Master's birth, the National Chiropractic Journal printed a rib-tickling paean, showing that Founder Palmer was no mere kneader of vertebrae, but a true philosopher, "servant of the cosmic mind." Said Chiropractor C. Sterling Cooley of Tulsa, Okla.: "When he gave an adjustment, his manner was much like that of a composer playing one of his own compositions...
...town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi, one of Rome's biggest business men. He had already...
...Franklin Roosevelt and his sons, the sons and grandsons of Theodore Roosevelt and 1,400 other high-bred U. S. youths. The President's proud face was humble, his head bent, as old Dr. Peabody intoned a prayer: "We make our humble supplications unto Thee for this Thy servant Franklin, upon whom is laid the responsibility for the guidance of this Nation...
...Chinese established a radio station and a school (said the China Year Book: "The curriculum of the school consists principally of Chinese and commonsense"). The British put in another radio station (which worked better than the Chinese) and established a diplomatic mission, headed at present by a capable civil servant, Basil john Gould...
...would rather gamble on a job with a high wage and an even chance of getting fired or promoted; 56.2% believe that interests of employers and employes are the same. The average American never expects to have a domestic servant, believes his children will have a better chance than he had, believes in the Bill of Rights, but is wary (40.2%) about the preaching of doctrines that might in the long run endanger those rights...